Biographical summary
Anushka Irani, BMBCh, DPhil, is a rheumatologist with clinical and research expertise in early rheumatoid arthritis and chronic musculoskeletal pain.
Dr. Irani completed her medical degree at Magdalen College, Oxford, UK in 2003 having obtained a BA Hons in Cambridge, UK, in Natural Sciences in 2000. She completed her internal medicine training in Oxford and undertook her rheumatology specialist training in London and Oxford. She also completed a PhD at the University of Oxford, funded by the NIHR, and was then awarded the Oxford-UCB Prize postdoctoral fellowship in 2017. She practiced as a consultant rheumatologist in Oxford since 2017 where she established the fibromyalgia specialist clinic in Oxford in 2020. She moved to Mayo Clinic Florida in 2023.
Dr. Irani's clinical practice focuses on the treatment of patients with inflammatory arthritis and chronic musculoskeletal pain. Her research interests include neuroimaging in chronic pain, personalized medicine and use of devices to measure physiological outcomes.
Conditions treated
Procedures performed
- Arthrocentesis
- Joint injection
- Quantitative sensation test
Mayo Clinic locations
Education
- 2023
Clinical/Research Fellowship - Senior Clinical Research Fellow (UCB Prize Fellowship)University of Oxford
- 2015
Doctoral Fellow - Rheumatology (NIHR Fellow)University of Oxford
- 2015
Doctor of Philosophy - Musculoskeletal SciencesUniversity of Oxford
- 2007
Clinical Fellowship - RheumatologyGreat Western Hospital
- 2003
BM BChMagdalen College, University of Oxford
- 2000
MA - Honours Natural Sciences, Physiology Part II (II.1)New Hall, University of Cambridge
Activities and honors
Certifications
- 2006
RheumatologyRoyal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom
Awards and honors
- 2022
Best Practice Awards 2022: Remote Clinical Management. Talking RheumatologyBritish Society of Rheumatology
- 2019
Medical Sciences Fund: Pump-priming award: “Ultrahigh-field 7T neuroimaging to stratify patients with fibromyalgia and investigate response to multimodal rehabilitation treatment”Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
- 2019
Pump-priming awardMedical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
- 2017
Oxford-UCB Prize Fellowship to investigate the mechanisms of pain in inflammatory arthritisMedical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
- 2014
Winner of the Researcher CategoryNIHR New Media Competition
- 2009
Above and beyond the call of duty, recognition by Musculoskeletal Teaching Committee Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
- 2008
Top Teachers AwardUCL Medical School
- 2008
Recognition for work as PACES RegistrarRoyal College of Physicians
- 2003
Sir John Brotherstone Prize: National Essay PrizeUnited Kingdom Faculty of Public Health Medicine
- 1999
1st class honours Medical Tripos Part II, Cambridge University
- 1998
Prize for Academic ExcellenceNew Hall, Cambridge University
- 1998
1st class honours Medical Tripos Part 1, University of Cambridge
Professional memberships
- 2021 - 2023
MemberResearch and Science Committee, British Pain Society
- 2021 - present
MemberBritish Society of Rheumatology
- 2018 - present
MemberInternational Association for the Study of Pain
- 2018 - present
MemberTerminology Taskforce, International Association for the Study of Pain
- 2016 - present
MemberBritish Medical Association
Publications